cnn breaking news. welcome to the lead. we have some breaking news for you. i m jake tapper. moments ago, we learned there is a settlement a settlement in the high stakes trial between dominion voting systems and fox dominion was suing fox for $1.6 billion, saying that the network showed complete and utter disregard for truth and facts and accuracy. when they allowed guests and hosts to push false conspiracy theories that the 2020 election had been stolen from donald trump. cnn s oliver darcy is outside the courthouse in delaware. oliver. what do we know about the settlement? we know right now. the judge just announced actually moments ago, jake that this case has been settled out of court. we don t know any details about what happened. but there was this unexplained two hour delay in court proceedings. this settlement really comes right before the clock struck struck midnight jake opening statements were set to begin at 1 30. they did not as scheduled, and there was an unexp
Company. through all this. we re all very proud of them. i also want to thank our attorneys have both susman godfrey. and claire lock for all their hard work. without their efforts and resolve. the truth that has been exposed. over the course of the last several months. may have never seen the light of day. thank you hi stephen shackelford with susman. godfrey. i am so proud to be here today representing dominion. it s a great day for the company, although a bittersweet day for the company. as i was preparing today to give the opening that we never got to never got to give i was reminded of the hell that the dominion employees went through and continue to go through to this day. money is accountability. and we got that today from fox. but we re not done yet. we ve